This class was an interesting experience. I'd definitely agree with the other review that he's old school. That being said the course material was very easy to understand and you only really need to skim the readings. Going to office hours is helpful because often he wants you to do something completely different than the instructions said.

Pontuso felt a little arbitrary with paper grading. Encouraged you to bring up new ideas in the paper that he hadn't heard before in the syllabus, then graded me down a little bit by basically saying my new ideas were wrong. Old school guy. That said he is really funny, not demanding and makes the topics pretty simple. Do need to skim the reading to keep up for the most part. Doesn't really call on people in class. Helpful with papers in office hours. Not a hard grader despite what I said before.